[OneWingedShark]

> I plead guilty of one count of overdoing it,

It's ok; I'm sure all of us get worked up from time to time.

> but right now I have a particular FReepertarian following me around posting to me because I don’t believe in legalizing ALL drugs.

Hm, that's odd.

I know there are many libertarians who are against open borders, but there are a too many who want every vice legalized, and I don’t buy this.

I tend to align with them more often than not WRT federal government, simply because the Constitution prohibits most of what the federal government does/is.
There's a disturbingly large contingent of conservatives willing to sacrifice constitutional limits when it aligns with their particular ideals [supporting the patently contraconstitutional War on Drugs, for example].

[stephenjohnbanker]

I don’t believe the choice to legalize drugs or other vices belongs to the Feral Govt. I am a states rights guy. Fed Gov is 10 times the size it needs to be to function.IMHO, under Obama, it has become a terrorist organization.

[highball]

There's a disturbingly large contingent of conservatives willing to sacrifice constitutional limits when it aligns with their particular ideals [supporting the patently contraconstitutional War on Drugs, for example].

Indeed.

I firmly believe that conservatism exists on a spectrum, with libertarianism on one side and authoritarianism on the other. There are very few on either extreme, but most of us live in an uneasy space in the center. We must balance our hard-won and God-given liberty against legitimate interests of the state.

It's hard to deny that the War on Drugs lacks any Constitutional foundation (even Prohibition needed an Amendment to be legal). But that doesn't mean there shouldn't be any regulations or limitations at any time, except in the straw-man arguments of our more-authoritarian brothers.